Sri Karthikeya Anurakta
The Vision of Superman
"A strict obedience to the wise and intuitive leading of a Guide is also normal and necessary for all but a few specially gifted seekers.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-940-941
(This decade-old letter on spiritual and occult experience is produced here after getting consent from Sri K. Anurakta, who has undergone considerable adventure in Consciousness by the time.)
Date: 23.08.2002.
Dear Maa Krishna,
I am posting a reply today to your wonderful E-mails. “The Descent” also received today.
With love at Their Feet.
Anurakta.
Om Namo Bhagavate
The Mother's House
Brahmapur
22.08.2002
Divine Amar Atman!,
My Adorable Father,
My deep love and pranam at your feet. To-day is Rakhya Purnima. Yesterday (night of 21.08.2002 from 10 pm. to 12 midnight) I saw an illumined vision on you. I discovered myself in Pondicherry. I was thinking of going to you since it was Rakhya Bandhan day. I met a young Ashramite and asked him whether he can bring for me a Rakhee from the market. He agreed and brought one Rakhee, it was golden colour and there was capital letter 'N' written on it. So I asked him why he brought this type of Rakhee, he replied since your brother's name begins with N so I brought this Rakhee. I told him to bring another Rakhee for me. Then he gave me another Rakhee with the letter Om on it. This Rakhee is intended for you. I took these two Rakhees to Maha Samadhi to get it touched. Then I went to your house. It was not the house of Handmade paper factory but a house in another world… You were in your house in bare body ( upper part). Seeing me you searched for your Dhoti. Your two attendants were also there. They searched for your Dhoti but there were no Dhoti in your house. I felt sorrow and I searched from the nearby almira and got one Dhoti with bluish-white colour. Then I thought whenever I will come from Brahmapur I will bring one Dhoti for you. Then I went to the market in order to purchase two Dhotis for you. When I returned from the market I saw you were meeting two or three nos of beggars who came to meet you. Then you went to your inner chamber. I followed you to that room. Then from your body I saw the Superman (Supramental being) is coming out. I was astonished and thought that since Superman is emerging from your body so no dress is required for you and dresses are vanishing from your house. I also got the instruction to keep this event secret.
Kindly acknowledge the receipt of the August issue of 'The Descent' that you will receive soon (it was sent on 19.08.2002). After seeing this dream I am hopeful and getting Ananda.
With our deep love and prayer.
At Their Lotus Feet
S.A. Maa Krishna.
N.B. As later recollected initially in the dream your body colour was yellowish white. When Superman came out of your body, the colour of the body of Superman was shining copper. The vibration of the event was exceptional as great action took place.
OM SRI AUROBINDO MAA
23.08.2002
Very Dear Maa Krishna,
Thank you very much for your E-mail of 22.08.2002 which have really overwhelmed me. (I am not E-mailing this letter/ acknowledgement as my Email are sent by a staff member and for this I cherish privacy.)
The clarity, truth and force of your vision and The Mother’s confirmation of its accuracy have been much more than I could have anticipated. I have been aware for a year or so that an area of my body not to the bottom (lowest) Chakra have Supramental vibrations, but this amounts to a few hundred cells compared with the vast number of cells in the body. So is because of this that my legs and left foot have been reacting so strangely. I have few visions as my vital being separates itself from ‘me’ very easily and leaves me to sleep and dream with little higher vitality. But from the few ‘visions’ and am permitted to remember they all concern themselves with defending the Ashram from powerfully negative occult forces. So the experience described by you comes as a heavy impact for I have no visions or dreams of my life in the Ashram at any level.
My highest (or deepest) yearning or aspiration is to fully surrender to Sri Aurobindo and to unite with His Consciousness. But I am of course dedicated to continuing Their work in this body for as long as it is needed.
Your observation about Dhotis is nicely relevant and also amusing as I have so many Dhotis it seems after giving older ones away. But of course, the transformed being will not need such things. The reference to meeting beggars is most appropriate as not only do I have the highest admiration for Avadhoots but I feel it is also important that in our aspiration for Supramentality we do not leave the beggar and very poor people too far behind.
I am keeping your E-mail as a ‘treasure’ to remind me of the higher aspect of my Sadhana during the continuous days of effort and service!
The Mother confirms that the shining Copper is the correct body colour in this context.
I will acknowledge ‘The Descent’ as soon as I receive it. (Just arrived on my Desk!!)
My love to you…. And my gratitude for your spiritual clarity.
At Their Feet,
Signed Anurakta
“Either man must fulfil himself by satisfying the Divine within him or he must produce out of himself a new and greater being who will be more capable of satisfying it. He must either himself become a divine humanity or give place to a Superman.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-222
“All that [ideas such as “everything will soon be spiritualised”] is absurd. The descent of the supramental means only that the Power will be there in the earth consciousness as a living force just as the thinking mental and the higher mental are already there. But an animal cannot take advantage of the presence of the thinking mental Power or an undeveloped man of the presence of the higher mental Power — so too everybody will not be able to take advantage of the presence of the supramental Power. I have also often enough said that it will be at first for the few, not for the whole earth, — only there will be a growing influence of it on the earth life.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-28/Letters on Yoga-290
“It is not intended to supramentalise humanity at large, but to establish the principle of the supramental consciousness in the earth-evolution. If that is done, all that is needed will be evolved by the supramental Power itself. It is not therefore important that the mission should be widespread. What is important is that the thing should be done at all in however small a number; that is the only difficulty…It would therefore be a waste of time and energy which should be devoted to the preliminary work psychicisation and spiritualisation of the being and nature without which no supramentalisation is possible.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-28/Letters on Yoga-I-288-290
Sri Matriniketan Ashram Sri Aurobindo Centre,
Managed by The Mother’s International Centre Trust,
Regd.No-146/24.11.97. Vill: Ramachandrapur, PO: Kukudakhandi-761100,
Via: Brahmapur, Dist: Ganjam, State: Orissa, India
https://www.srimatriniketanashram.com/education/photo
Sri K. Anurakta’s surface personality is hinted from the following information:-
Date of Birth: 5th February-1932, 7.30 A.M.,
Place of Birth: Bournemouth, U.K.
Name given by parents: ANTONY DAVID ROCHELLE
The Mother gave the name ‘ANURAKTA’ in November 1961 and he added the prefix KARTIKEYA later on. Met the Mother at Pondicherry at the age of 28, in the year 1960 and stayed permanently.
Name in the passport: ANTONY DAVID KARTIKEYA ANURAKTA.
Date of departure of earthly body: 25.09.2014.
We felt in Sri K. Anurakta as described in The Synthesis of Yoga: "This will be to him his (a Sadhaka of Integral Yoga) exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it."
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-130
“And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other powers of the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga/p-67-68